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Flip Turn

Water · Physical · 14 Pokémon in Reg M-B
Water
Flip Turn
TypeWater
CategoryPhysical
Base power60
Accuracy100%
PP20
Priority0
PokémonTypes Its usageCarries it
Basculegion 30.2% 37.6% Mega Swampert 8.5% 3.9% Samurott-Hisui 0.48% 24.2% Palafin 0.48% 60.8% Mega Dragalge 0.48% 30% Mega Starmie 0.46% 13.2% Basculegion-F 0.36% 4.3% Blastoise 0.15% 64.5% Vaporeon 0.13% 40.4% Clawitzer 0.08% 19.4% Quaquaval 0.06% 4.3% Mega Sharpedo 0.03% 2.4% Simipour 0.02% 55.5% Qwilfish 0.01% 61.4%

What it does

If this move is successful and the user has not fainted, the user switches out even if it is trapped and is replaced immediately by a selected party member. The user does not switch out if there are no unfainted party members, or if the target switched out using an Eject Button or through the effect of the Emergency Exit or Wimp Out Abilities.

At 60 base power it is the 32nd strongest of the 42 damaging physical moves that appear in this format.

Who carrys it

14 of the 282 Pokémon measured on the Regulation M-B ladder carry Flip Turn. The one that matters most is Basculegion, which is on 30.2% of teams and carrys it on 37.6% of its sets. The full list is above, ordered by how much of the format each one is.

What it hits

As a Water move it is super effective against Fire, Ground and Rock, resisted by Dragon, Grass and Water. 8 other Water moves appear in this format: Wave Crash, Aqua Jet, Life Dew, Liquidation, Muddy Water, Rain Dance and others.

Who could and does not

20 Pokémon legal in this regulation can learn Flip Turn at all, against the 14 that actually bring it. The gap is the interesting number: it is the set of Pokémon that have the option and decline it. The most-played of those are Milotic, Primarina, Greninja, Empoleon and Feraligatr — each of them measured on the ladder, each of them leaving this move on the shelf.

How concentrated it is

Across the ladder, Flip Turn accounts for an expected 0.13 of the six slots on an average team, which makes it the 45th most-brought of the 126 moves this format runs. 91% of that comes from Basculegion alone, so it is really one Pokémon’s move rather than the format’s. Its carriers are mostly Water (13), Ghost (2) and Dark (2).

Where these numbers come from

Usage is Smogon's published statistics for the Regulation M-B VGC ladder, and the description is the one shipped in the Pokémon Showdown data set. Both are regenerated on every build rather than written by hand, so this page follows the format instead of trailing it. Take any of it to the team builder or the damage calculator.